Is it P5 or Amplitube - Power Hogs...
Ok, so I've been digging into P5...
I'd already heard it's a bit cpu hungry, but what i'm finding is ridiculous! I'm on a P4 3.0ghz, 1 gig ram.
In P5, I have an Acid drum loop and two tracks of guitar - one rhythm, one lead. Both guitars are through Amplitube. With this alone, I am using 13%cpu with WDM drivers at 12ms latency; 15% with ASIO at 9.8ms latency. Wow!
If I add Dimension and lay down a bass line, my cpu jumps up to 23%. This is four tracks, about twenty-four measures! That's crazy; in Sonar I bet I'd barely be using one or two percent. Is Amplitube a major resource hog? I know Dimension is, so I expected that. But 15% on three tracks????
How do you guys complete a song? Any comments would be greatly apreciated folks...thanks!
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